Tom Hanks along with his producing partner, Gary Goetzman, will soon begin adapting the novel, Garden of Beasts, into a film. According the Hollywood Reporter, Universal has supposedly secured the rights to the book. Continue reading
Every now and then a movie comes along that was based on a book, or a short story or a novella and it turns out that the movie was actually BETTER than what it was based on. Now don’t bite my head off, it does happen. I am not saying in those instances that I didn’t like the book, I am just saying that the movie did it better. However, because it is so rare that a movie was better than its written counterpart, this column was created. In this column we take a moment to look at both stories and explain why the movie was better.
So this time, I am looking at the film, Wristcutters: A Love Story, based on the short story Kneller’s Happy Campers written by Etgar Keret. This short story was featured in his collection called, The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories. Continue reading
It was announced way back in 2010 that massively popular Juno writer, Diablo Cody would be adapting the book series “Sweet Valley High” into a feature-length film. While we haven’t heard much since then, it seems it is still on Cody’s plate for the future. Continue reading
We all have movies that we would never admit to loving as much as we do. These are movies that are either particulary girly or silly, but are movies we love to watch over and over and over again. These are movies that we will always love to watch and probably always will. These are my five guilty pleasure movies that also happen to be based on equally awesome books. Continue reading
They want to make my book into a movie? Heck, they might as well make it into a haiku, I thought when I first got the news.
I mean, I spent a long time writing, revising, and crafting as good of a book as I possibly could. And now they want to compress it to two hours of screen time?
But then I got a phone call from Patrick Dempsey, who had signed on to play the lead character, Denny Swift, and I thought, well, okay; I think this is going to work. Continue reading
Part two of this novel, was crazy long. It was a major section of plot for the story. I made this section super long, because I had to. I got really into toward the end of the section. It got pretty intense. I hope when them movie comes out, they take this part seriously and do it right. Continue reading
With the Twilight Saga coming to end next year, the world needs a new box office reign to have our affection. Without Bella and Edward in our lives, whose teams are we are going root for? And whose wedding are we going wait months to see! Well, there are a couple of new sagas that might be awesome enough to grab our heartstrings. Continue reading
Why are you interested in this adaptation?
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I actually have a special place in my heart for the Three Musketeers in all iterations. The book was the first piece of “literature” that I read at I think 10 or 11, when I had run through all the SFF in my school’s library and decided to start edumucating myself by reading some of the classics. I am fairly sure it was an abridged version—this is based on my memory of finding the story really easy to read and very fast-paced, which, having suffered through an unabridged version of Count of Monte Cristo I know that Dumas’ writing really isn’t—and I loved it. Continue reading
Scarlett Johansson is about to make her directorial debut with a new project based on Truman Capote’s lost novella. Continue reading
Hugo arrives on the big screen on November 23rd, but we have a new peek for those who don’t want to wait that long to find out more about the movie that tells the tale of a orphaned boy, an adventurous girl, and a mechanical man that might possibly unlock a secret or two.